Beauties of continental architecture

Coney, John

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Monografie

Persistenter Identifier:: 1460979038851

Titel:: Beauties of continental architecture

Untertitel:: in a series of views of ancient cathedrals and other remarkable public buildings, in France, the Netherlands, Germany and Italy

Künstler/Illustrator:: Coney, John

Verleger/Verlag:: M. A. Nattali

Erscheinungsort:: London

Erscheinungsjahr:: 1843

Sprache:: englisch; französisch

Strukturtyp:: Monografie

Besitzende Institution:: Universitätsbibliothek Stuttgart

Standort:: Universitätsbibliothek Stuttgart

Signatur:: 1Kc 1099

Lizenz:: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/deed.de

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Titel:: The Cathedral, Ghent

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THE CATHEDRAL, GHENT. Among the churches in the city of Ghent, the Cathedral, formerly dedicated to St. John the Baptist, and afterwards to St. Bavon, is the most distinguished for its magnificence and size, and for the elegance of its tower. It is recorded to have been first dedicated in 941, by Bishop Transmarus. It was subsequently enlarged and beautified by Counts Baldwin and Arnulphus, by Gerard Vilanus, and others. Great additions were made by order of the Senate in 1228 and 1274. The Pronaos was added in the reign of the Emperor Charles V. The foundation of the tower was laid 26th May, 1462, and the cross placed on it in 1535, by John Somer, an architect of Ghent. Chapters of the Golden Fleece were held here; the first in 1445, by Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, the founder of the order; the second in 1559, by Philip II. King of Spain, whose father, the Emperor Charles V, was christened in this Cathedral, in the year 1500. John of Gaunt (properly of Gand, i. e. Ghent) Duke of Lancaster, son of Edward III. King of England, was born in the Monastery of St. Bavon, in the year 1341. This Monastery of St. Bavon was pulled down by order of the Emperor Charles V. the ground being wanted for the Citadel, which he caused to be built; the abbot and monks were therefore removed to the Church of St. John the Baptist, which was the occasion of its being called the Church of St. Bavon. Many sovereigns, and a vast number of eminent men, have been interred in this Church, which was formerly adorned with extraordinary splendor. Among the paintings was one by John and Hubert Van Eyck, representing the Triumph of the Lamb, which, as Sander says, “ prce omnibus micat, velut inter ignes Luna minores. There are also several fine paintings by Rubens; but many of its treasures have disappeared in the lapse of time, and in the ravages of revolution and war.

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